As of yesterday, the South American airline Aeroregional has started operating a charter flight between the Central American city and the capital of Ecuador.
According to information from Panama's airport authorities, the flight will arrive on Thursday at 13:30 local time using a Boeing B737-500 with a capacity of 130 passengers.
Due to the political crisis that has been going on in the country for almost four months, the airlines American Airlines, Delta, United and Spirit, have decided to reduce the number of flights to Managua.
From January to June a total of 161,000 TEUs were mobilized from Guatemalan ports to different US destinations, registering a slight year-on-year increase of 1%.
According to the "Logistics Monitor" prepared by the Guatemalan Association of Exporters (Agexport), Port Everglades in Florida prevails as the main cargo receiving port of Guatemala, with 15% of the total sent there up to June, followed by Wilmington in Delaware, with 13.4%, Gloucester in New Jersey with 9.5%, Gulfport in Mississippi, with 7.8% and Port Hueneme in California, with 7.6%.
In June, the consumer price indexes in all of the countries in the Central American region recorded year-on-year increases in the transport spending division.
According to a report from the Central American Monetary Council, in June of this year, Nicaragua was the country that reported the highest year-on-year increase in the price level of transportation services, registering an increase of 9.8% compared to the same month in 2018.
It has been announced that the port terminal will receive two new cranes valued at $26 million, an investment that is part of the project to expand and equip Pier 6.
The Honduran Presidency reported that the two cranes, Super Post Panamax Ship-to-Shore, will be the largest in the region and will be installed on pier 6 of Puerto Cortés, which in recent years has been undergoing an expansion and modernization process.
A search has begun for investors interested in participating in the tender to award the operation of La Aurora International Airport in concession, for a term of 15 to 20 years.
Starting from September this year Spirit Airlines will fly three times and four times a week from La Aurora Airport to Houston, and Orlando, respectively.
In a statement, the Guatemalan Tourism Institute explained that "... As of September 7, Spirit will fly from Guatemala to Houston three times a week and from November 8, 4 times a week, for this route it will use an A319 crew with capacity for 145 passengers.
Guatemalan business leaders have denounced the fact that due to the crisis in Nicaragua that is now affecting the region, the cost of transporting goods by sea has increased between 30% and 40%.
Representatives from the Chamber of Industry in Guatemala (CIG) and the Guatemalan Chamber of Food and Beverages (CGAB), reported that due to the Nicaraguan crisis which started in mid-April and has deepened with every week that has passed, entrepreneurs have reported increases in their transportation costs caused by the difficulty of traveling through the territory under conflict.
Back on the table once again is discussion of a project to construct Metro Rail for Guatemala City, which would stretch 20 kilometers from the capital and require an investment of close to $800 million.
The Municipality of Guatemala, the National Agency of Partnerships for the Development of Economic Infrastructure (Anadie), Ferrocarriles de Guatemala (Fegua) and Ferrovías signed a cooperation agreement to establish the mechanisms that allow for the Metro Rail transportation system to be put into operation.
In May, 34,400 foreign tourists arrived in the country by air, almost 40% less than in the same month last year.
The political and social crisis that the country is experiencing continues to cause havoc in the Nicaraguan economy, with tourism being one of the most affected sectors.According to statistics from the National Chamber of Tourism of Nicaragua (Canatur), in April, the month in which the crisis began, there was a year-on-year decrease of 16% in the number of visitors that entered by air, falling from 60,116 to 50,450.
The Municipality of Guatemala City reported that it plans to implement two new lines of the Transmetro service, which will involve bringing 28 stations into operation.
The mayor of the Guatemalan capital, Ricardo Quiñónez, explained to Dca.gob.gt that "... medium and long-term planning has been established, in relation to the Transmetro service, which includes the implementation of two new lines: 7, to zone 12, and 5, to zone 5."
A proposal has been made to build an elevated monorail metro system, which would use three circuits with a 40 kilometers lenght to connect the city from La Sabana to Curridabat.
Copa Airlines has announced that the investment includes the expansion of its training center for pilots and the purchase of new flight simulators.
Representatives from the airline said that with the investments they will make in the training center in Clayton, district of Panama, training will be provided for the handling of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, which will begin arriving in August.
As of December, Air Canada will fly daily from Toronto to Liberia, Costa Rica, and from Montreal it will do so three times a week, during the entire high season.
The Costa Rican Tourism Institute reported that the airline will increase its frequencies to Liberia, in the province of Guanacaste, changing the "... Montreal-Liberia route from one to three weekly flights (on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) starting on the 18th December 2018."
For more than 24 hours rural organizations have blocked access to the road that leads from Guatemala to the border with Mexico, in Quetzaltengo.
The Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial and Financial Associations (Cacif) explained that "... The passivity of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman is worrying, an entity that is expected to avidly defend the guarantees of the law.The entity is obliged to take thenecessaryactionsto respect all rights, today, security, free movement, access to work, education, health and free enterprise are under serious threat."
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